Re: Obama one of Greatest Teleprompter Readers of all time!

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/8/2010 1:36 PM, Doug wrote:
>>
>> The BP fiasco was no mistake - nobody is THAT incompetent.  He had to be
>> purposefully trying to make it worse.
>
> The reality is that after the event there was precious little that the
> government could do.  The US government should have had forced oil companies
> to have contingency plans in place to handle such a catastrophic failure and
> they should have verified the feasibility of these plans, not just take the
> oil companies word that they can contain any likely spill. The MMS and the
> industry it was supposed to regulate were just too close to each other.
>
> Doug
>
>

The government could have allowed in the foreign help that was offered.

The government could have done what has been done before and waived the
the EPA rules that prevented almost all skimmers from removing ninety
percent of the oil being released.

Just for two.

I'm not saying BP shouldn't have paid for it all - but the way it was
handled was akin to some schmuck starting a forest fire and the
government not doing anything about it, or letting anyone else do
anything about it 'cause that guy should be cleaning up his own mess.